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Solar Superstorm: UK Must Take Immediate Measures To Prepare For Sun's Wrath, Says Royal Academy of Engineering
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Solar Superstorm: UK Must Take Immediate Measures To Prepare For Sun's Wrath, Says Royal Academy of Engineering
Weird... Was talking with this chick the other day whos uncle works for the NOAA, pretty much studying the sun all day every day. Basically he said around March/April a massive solar flare is going to knock out a bunch of electric components around the world
I thought the timings of these events were unpredictable?
marcus don't worry, your back will absorb all the sun rays and protect the kingdom from peril.
No shit.. If he stands on a tall building that lat spread of his will shield half the country.Quote:
Originally Posted by HitIt
Uhm... if that happened; we'd all be dead.Quote:
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Would we?!Quote:
Originally Posted by dan68131
Yep... electromagnetic inductance would kill us or at the very minimum you'd glow in the dark.Quote:
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No chance. The power necessary to make that happen would have to be astronomical. We would already be dead here from the heat blast alone if the sun ever produced a flare that large.Quote:
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It's funny how they like to stir up the public on these things. And then we all wait and observe and nothing happens. Which by the way is a good thing...But you can be sure they will raise the cost of gasoline in the states and blame it on solar flares...Quote:
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In the 1800's when that last huge storm hit, it set telegraph cables on fire.Quote:
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Interesting article, but the UK's greatest environmental problem is flooding and rising sea level, not the sun. I mean cmon, we all know how bad Australia got it with bush fires this year. That's a country that is affected by extreme sun.